TEST: FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Thomas Hooker
Connecticut
200 years
During the period of the Crusades, warfare between Christians and Muslims lasted nearly
True
Elizabeth I was intolerant of the Separatists and hindered their efforts.
All of the above
Exploration of the New World was encouraged by:
James Oglethorpe
Georgia
True
The joint-stock company, in which individual men invested and profited in proportion to the number of shares purchased, was the principal instrument of England's overseas expansion.
False
The most profitable commodity that the Virginia colonists were able to trade was corn.
Protestants
Those that broke away from the Catholic Church, like John Calvin, were collectively known as _____.
Francis Drake
Who was the first Englishman to sail around the world?
The Renaissance
began because of the rediscovery of learning was hurried along by the invention of the printing press saw the invention of scientific instruments that brought about the age of exploration
John Smith
Jamestown
The Calverts
Maryland
John Winthrop
Massachusetts
Lord Berkly
New Jersey
Maryland and Rhode Island
Religious toleration was guaranteed in which of the following English colonies?
Roger Williams
Rhode Island
he was a Separatist
Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 because:
Duke of York
New York
True
New York began as a Dutch trading post.
William Penn
Pennsylvania
True
The Crusades helped to increase the flow of trade in Europe.
Their faith in God
The French Huguenots migrated to America because they were being persecuted for:
True
Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church in order to obtain a divorce from his wife, Catherine.
William Bradford
Plymouth
False
Religious freedom was encouraged in the Puritan colony of Massachusetts.
True
The Toleration Act of 1649 was passed in Maryland because the Protestants outnumbered the Catholics.
True
The first permanent English colony in the New World was Jamestown.
